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May 20, 2007
Consulting Firm Paid $5 Million So Far for Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Work
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Sarah Ryley
Consulting firm AKRF will receive $630,000 more for work it has done related to the Atlantic Yards arena and high- rise project after a state development corporation vote Thursday, bringing the firm’s total contract for project-related work in the last 20 months to $4.8 million.The same firm was paid $500,000 by the city’s Economic Development Corporation for its three-year study on the relationship between several 19th century houses on Duffield Street and the Underground Railroad, according to testimony by EDC Senior Vice President Kate Collignon.
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Critics of the agencies have criticized the consulting firm for primarily aiming to produce the desired results of the agencies that pay them big money to conduct the studies, rather than reducing any potential harm a project could cause. But development corporation officials have routinely responded that no other firm is as qualified as AKRF.
Posted by amy at May 20, 2007 7:46 AM